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Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biology, bioRxiv, Carl Zimmer, engineering, Escherichia coli, evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic code, genome, Harvard University, intelligent design, MIT, New York Times, publications, recoding, Science (journal), synthetic biologists, Yonatan Chemla}

“Rewriting Code of Life” Sounds a Lot Like Intelligent Design

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August 14, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Modifying the genetic code is easy. Right? It would have to be, under an evolutionary understanding. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, breaking, cancer, chemicals, Darwinism, devolution, eugenics, evil, function, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, human dignity, human life, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, life, materialism, podcast, problem of evil, Return of the God Hypothesis, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, suffering, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Tova Forman, tradeoffs}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __recommended, abiogenesis, biocomplexity, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Freudian slip, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jan Spitzer, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, Nita Sahai, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, Simona Ginsburg, teleological, teleology, teleonomic}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

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The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, biodiversity, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, flooding, health, health care, hospitals, hubris, human exceptionalism, humans, medical ethics, moral expertise, public health policy, war, wildfires}

Only Bioethicists Can Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

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Apparently, anyone with any claim to victimization or marginalization can be a bioethicist now. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Whitney Gilkey, Edward B. Davis, Edwin Brant Frost, Edwin Grant Conklin, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henri Bergson, intelligent design, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, materialism, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, modernists, pamphlets, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Robert Andrews Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, schools, Shailer Mathews, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Divinity School}

Scopes: Same Debate, Different World

_{Daniel Witt
August 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Understandably, the Scopes trial is often viewed through the lens of current debates surrounding evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, Ernst Mayr, Hall of Human Origins, Harvard University, human evolution, human exceptionalism, human origins, knuckle-walking, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, podcast, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum, transparency, Trump Administration}

Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 11, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, Children of Light, circulation, coincidences, doctors, electromagnetic radiation, fine-tuning, Fire-Maker, gamma rays, hydrologic cycle, light, metabolism, Michael Denton, photosynthesis, plate tectonics, radio waves, Sarah Chaffee, sun, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, universe, water, wavelength}

We Are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 10, 2025

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, biochemists, chemicals, Children of Light, coincidences, Discovery Institute, doctors, Fire-Maker, human beings, intelligent design, Michael Denton, podcast, Privileged Species, Sarah Chaffee, sun, sunlight, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

How Light Sustains Human Life: Michael Denton Explains

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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“The atmosphere lets through just the light we need,” says Denton, “and the sun puts out just the light we need." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, differences, Discovery Institute, engineering, engineers, environmental changes, function, ID 3.0, information, intelligent design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, poster, purpose, random mutation, randomness, similarities, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, top-down design, Venn diagram}

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›

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Date
August 7, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiotic processes, Accounts of Chemical Research, biopolymer backbones, biopolymers, building blocks, causal precondition, contradiction, Darwinian evolution, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, living state, molecules, polymerization, RNA}

Biopolymers: Change One Word to Eliminate the Contradiction

_{Science and Culture
August 7, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The living state itself depends on the prior existence of biopolymers (such as RNA and DNA) which were themselves not produced by abiotic processes. Read More ›